Quick fix for Garlic Breath

Sometimes after eating garlic, you can brush and floss, rinse with mouthwash, use a tongue scraper, and still the garlic breath comes back.

One of the traditional fixes for this is chewing parsley, but that doesn’t help with the fact that garlic-infested air keeps coming up from your stomach as you digest your meal. Anything you chew on – or even brushing your teeth, or gargling with mouthwash – will only help for a while. And for some reason, in my experience, mints don’t help much either.

What does help? Ketchup.

Don’t ask me why. My mother stumbled onto this ages ago and passed it on to me, and somehow it seems to stop the garlic problem at the source: your stomach. Just take a spoonful of ketchup, swirl it around in your mouth, and then swallow it.  Maybe it’s the tomato, the vinegar or some enzyme or something, but whatever it is, it works almost instantly and completely.

As you might guess, swallowing a spoonful of ketchup is a little bit tart, and therefore not the most delicious experience. But it’s well worth it when you can’t get rid of that taste in your mouth, or you don’t want to scare people away with garlic breath.

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Posted in Health and Beauty on August 25, 2009